This working paper will appear as a chapter in the fourth edition of the Cultural Context of
Aging, Jay Sokolovsky, ed. Stafford provides an overview of the growing age-friendly community
movement and places it within a new paradigm for thinking about aging as a non-medical
phenomenon. He argues that aging is not about time and the body but about place and relationships.
Discussing the implications of a medical model of aging, Stafford suggests that the
sharing economy presents, for older people, a way out of the difficulties presented by capitalism
and a monetary economy.
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